POSTPONED. A Night With the Spirits

This event will be rescheduled for later in the year. In the meantime, those with tickets will be issued with a refund.

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Two eloquent scholar-practitioners treat us to  talks covering two distinct traditions of working with spirits. 

Turbulent Spirits: Devils and the Dead in Early Modern Necromancy Dr Alexander Cummins takes us back in time to the early modern period, to relate some particularly vivid cases of demonology and necromancy, and how they became interwoven in the folk imagination. Get ready to meet folkloric devils,  grimoire demons, and spirits who disguise themselves as the dearly departed dead.

 Hallowed Bones, Restless Dead: Saint Necromancy in Iberia and the New World In this talk, Jesse Hathaway Diaz looks at necromancy embedded within saint veneration and sorcery. Focussing on Spanish culture (including in the Americas) he talks about how people (and not just heretics) masque spirits in Catholic attire, force saints into…